Ruth Browning, wife of Walker Browning. Ruth Merryweather married Walker Browning about 1872. Arrived in Montana in 1883. Walker Browning died in 1925. See his story in Walker Browning, Billings Pioneer, Billings Gazette, February 8, 1925, p. 3. Members of First Methodist Church and First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Billings. Lived at 106 South Twenty-fifth street. She died before 1910. Learn more about family in Captain Bivens, Veteran of Many Wars, Billings Gazette, March 2, 1930, p. 24.

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